Thread: initdb hangs even though ipc-daemon is running?

Hi Guys,

I'm having trouble installing & running PostgreSQL for the first time on my
Win2K system. I'm running ipc-daemon as a service (following a reboot after
ipc-daemon --install-as-service) but initdb is still hanging at the point
shown below.

I'm guessing there may be a problem with logins/access rights here?


Administrator@GILBERTT ~
$ initdb -D test
The files belonging to this database system will be owned by user
"Administrator
".
This user must also own the server process.

creating directory test... ok
creating directory test/base... ok
creating directory test/global... ok
creating directory test/pg_xlog... ok
creating directory test/pg_clog... ok
creating template1 database in test/base/1...


I am logged in to a company domain VMSW1 as user GilbertT (well, I type
gilbertt when logging on to Win2K but user manager shows it as GilbertT) who
belongs to Administrators group on the local machine. I installed everything
via this login. Could this be the problem, since initdb reports that the
files will belong to Administrator and requires that the same user must own
the server process?

thanks for any help - amazing how many hours (days) this sort of thing can
eat up...!

cheers,

Tom Gilbert

Hi  All,

Gilbirt ur answr lies in ur question as u rightly quoted
" I'm guessing there may be a problem with logins/access rights here?"
Do sothing like this to confirm
Go to ur system directory i.e
win\system and win\system32

From folder options do view all
and Select all the dll  files NOW here is the catch if u can see all the
dlls then u would be able to
install your Postgresql as local user login only .
Try the same in while u are logged on ur domain.

Now which ever login permits u to see the dlls will alow you to install
postgresl

Install Postgresql and u must succed

If not revert back I am sure their are many friends of our to help!!!!!

Regards,
Aspire






----- Original Message -----
From: "Tom Gilbert" <Tom.Gilbert@vmusicstores.com>
To: <pgsql-novice@postgresql.org>
Sent: Thursday, February 27, 2003 9:19 PM
Subject: [NOVICE] initdb hangs even though ipc-daemon is running?


> Hi Guys,
>
> I'm having trouble installing & running PostgreSQL for the first time on
my
> Win2K system. I'm running ipc-daemon as a service (following a reboot
after
> ipc-daemon --install-as-service) but initdb is still hanging at the point
> shown below.
>
> I'm guessing there may be a problem with logins/access rights here?
>
>
> Administrator@GILBERTT ~
> $ initdb -D test
> The files belonging to this database system will be owned by user
> "Administrator
> ".
> This user must also own the server process.
>
> creating directory test... ok
> creating directory test/base... ok
> creating directory test/global... ok
> creating directory test/pg_xlog... ok
> creating directory test/pg_clog... ok
> creating template1 database in test/base/1...
>
>
> I am logged in to a company domain VMSW1 as user GilbertT (well, I type
> gilbertt when logging on to Win2K but user manager shows it as GilbertT)
who
> belongs to Administrators group on the local machine. I installed
everything
> via this login. Could this be the problem, since initdb reports that the
> files will belong to Administrator and requires that the same user must
own
> the server process?
>
> thanks for any help - amazing how many hours (days) this sort of thing can
> eat up...!
>
> cheers,
>
> Tom Gilbert
>
>
>
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